According to Jeff Baker of the Seattle Times. The Red Sox, Mariners, and Padres were discussing a 3 way trade that would send Felix Hernandez to Boston and Adrian Gonzalez to Seattle. At first Boston told Seattle they could pick any of these 5 players:
RHP Clay Buchholz
RHP Daniel Bard
RHP Justin Masterson
LHP Nick Hagadone
RHP Michael Bowden
LHP Felix Doubront
OF Josh Reddick
SS Yamaico Navarro
Seattle turned the offer down and in response, Boston got the Padres involved. The offer that emerged was:
Seattle gets: Adrian Gonzalez and Clay Bucholz along with a couple more Boston specs.
Boston gets: Felix Hernandez
San Diego gets: Brandon Morrow, Phillip Aumont and Carlos Truinful (from Seattle). They would also get a couple of top prospects from the Red Sox.
But the Mariners reportedly rejected this deal as well. My question to you is, would you have done the deal if you were the GM of the Mariners?
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no I would not have done the trade.
I’m with Joseph on this one. King Felix is already performing really well in the bigs & he’s younger than Buchhoz. While Gonzalez would be nice, heavy hitting 1b’ers aren’t nearly as rare as top of the rotation young starters.
No way. In JZ we trust!
What I heard was that the Dodgers offered Russel Martin,Loney and a minor league pitcher for Adrian Gonzo and Bell,which team turned down this offer?
Leo, do you have a link for that one?
http://www.mlbdailydish.com/2009/7/31/971454/a-look-at-the-dodgers-padres
That’s a link that I found but it doesn’t say what team rejected it.
My hunch is that it would have been the Padres. There are reports that they were asking the moon for Gonzalez.
Hell No! I rather keep hernandez. The mariners giving up talents just for 2 players and some top prospects. I’m a Seattle Mariners fan and glad that they rejected that deal. Oh by the way we have Jack Z. He knows more about trades and players than anyone in baseball!
Wow. Nooooo way. The mariners would have to be extremely foolish to even consider either deal. It would take the bank from ANY team to give up Felix. Dare I call him the best pitcher in the AL? Yes. That being said the deal is poor unless we acquired another ace… but even then I wouldn’t do it.